Gloucestershire is a fair county, she extends her borders amongst some of England's finest Cotswold towns and villages, across a landscape that changes imperceptibly as you travel along modern highways. http://directory.localriding.com/%cat_tags%/ en-us Badminton Horse Trials is one of the toughest and most exciting equestrian events - the pinnacle of the world’s 3-Day-Event calendar. As the name suggests horses and riders complete the competition over 3 days, each day consisting of a different discipline or phase. Horses and riders must complete a dressage test demonstrating Obedience, Discipline, Accuracy and Elegance. They need to be fit and athletic to complete a 4 mile cross country ride jumping several solid man-made and natural obstacles within a set time. Finally they must complete a course of show-jumps designed to test their agility and accuracy at speed. The Manor of Badminton was purchased by the Worcesters in 1608, originally for a younger son of the family. The Estates came back to the main branch of the family in 1655 and in the middle 1660s rebuilding of the old house started. The 1st Duke of Beaufort retrieved the family fortunes which had suffered badly in the civil wars and made Badminton his home. http://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/ 1.00 The Forest of Dean Driving Trials Group is situated in the Forest of Dean in Glorious Gloucestershire, but cover a wide area both sides of the Welsh border. We cover events both indoors in the winter and outdoors in summer, plus an active training programme. We have use of the fantastic facilities at The David Broome Equestrian Centre, with a full marathon Course of 8+ permanent obstacles and an all weather arena measuring 100x70m. http://forestdriving.co.uk 1.00 Official site of The Cotswold Hunt with news, diary, campaign details, education page and a page for hunt reports. http://www.chunt.org/ 1.00 Beaufort Hunt territory lies in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire stretching from Bath in the South to Malmesbury in the East to just short of Cirencester in the North and to Nailsworth and Chipping Sodbury in the West. <br><br> The present Duke of Beaufort joined his cousin the 10th Duke in the mastership in 1974 and was joined by Capt. Farquhar who hunts the hounds in 1985. The Beaufort Hunt comprises a main committee with a chairman and some 25 landowners, farmers and subscribers. <br><br> Due to the large number of applications only those that have made prior arrangements with the hunt secretary are allowed to hunt on a horse. http://www.beauforthunt.com/ 1.00 Official World Arabian Horse Organization consortium of countries worldwide who oversee the trading between nations of the Arabian Horse. For the past 30 years WAHO has entertained a continuing flow of questions and requests concerning the registration of purebred Arabian horses. Countries without registries were given help in establishing new registries and countries with existing registries, not acceptable to most other registering countries, were given help in making their stud books acceptable to other WAHO Members http://www.waho.org/ 1.00